Cloud Resilience & Security Automation Intern

The Nielsen Company • New York, NY

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About The Position

We are looking for a technical intern to help us audit and fortify our AWS environment. While many tools provide high-level dashboards, we need a "ground-truth" assessment driven by custom automation. Your goal is to build a suite of CLI-driven scripts that programmatically identify resiliency gaps and security misconfigurations across our application stacks. You will act as a "Cloud Detective," mapping the dependencies of our critical applications and ensuring every underlying resource—from S3 buckets to IAM roles—meets our gold standard for resilience and least-privilege security.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or Cyber Engineering.
• Strong familiarity with the Linux command line and at least one scripting language.
• Cloud Knowledge: Basic understanding of AWS core services (S3, IAM, EC2, VPC).
• Conceptual Depth: Understanding of the "Blast Radius" concept and why "Star Principals" are a critical security risk.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the AWS CLI is a significant plus.

Responsibilities

• Automated Resource Querying: Develop and execute scripts (AWS CLI, Boto3/Python, or similar) to pull real-time configuration data from our AWS environment.
• Dependency Mapping: Associate cloud resources (EC2, RDS, Lambda, etc.) with specific business applications to create a "Resiliency Map."
• Resiliency Auditing: Identify single points of failure, such ast S3 buckets lacking versioning, cross-region replication, or appropriate lifecycle policies.
• Security Configuration Review: Scan for "Star Principals" ("Principal": "") in Resource-Based Policies and overly permissive IAM roles that violate the principle of least privilege.
• Health Metric Generation: Aggregate raw CLI output into structured health metrics (JSON/CSV) that can be used to track remediation progress.

Benefits

• We are committed to an inclusive benefits package that supports our employees and their families.
• This includes comprehensive health and wellness plans, a 401(k) with a Nielsen company match, and a generous paid time off policy.
• Depending on the role, additional benefits may include a company-provided vehicle and/or discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees